emotions on child development. Optimal nutrition and social-emotional development are the basic building blocks for higher …

This report seeks to put the issue of poverty in practical terms of what we know about poverty and what can be done to …

Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian … crisis in 1997, there was a reversal in poverty trends. Estimates indicate that the headcount index has gone up to 40 percent … in 1998 from 31.8 percent in 1997. Other nonincome-based measures of poverty also suggest deterioration in the welfare …

This study analyzes the effects on poverty incidence and other economic variables resulting from government … find that poverty incidence declines under the entire range of distributional assumptions considered. Nevertheless, the … most important determinant of poverty impact is the degree of rural bias. Even the most regressive of the pro …

poverty likelihood and poverty gap, an increase in the probability of employment and an increase in wages. Our results provide …

Poverty incidence has been declining in the Philippines over the past 10 years. However, with the advent of the Asian … crisis in 1997, there was a reversal in poverty trends. Estimates indicate that the headcount index has gone up to 40 percent … in 1998 from 31.8 percent in 1997. Other nonincome-based measures of poverty also suggest deterioration in the welfare …